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Great news. Flush out the Obama Inc. fecal hold overs...
President Donald J. Trump personally called National ICE Council President Chris Crane "A President who will take the time to personally call an ICE Officer to find out what’s going on. This is the President ICE Officers endorsed.”
[All Africa] WHEN President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... exchanged nuptials with Grace Marufu amid pomp and fanfare in August 1996, few would have guessed that she would after two decades make such a dramatic impact on the country's political landscape.
Just a typist at the Office of the President and Cabinet, Grace married Mugabe in an extravagant ceremony, making her the country's First Lady. In recent years, her influence had risen as she had become the power behind the throne.
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"There might have been a residue of sympathy for Mugabe, but many were repulsed by Grace's brand of politics. She was brash and condescending, with a penchant for humiliating adults in public. Many dreaded the prospect of her presidency."
Whom could we possibly compare Grace to in the west ?
[BLOOMBERG] Former Zim-bob-wean President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... won’t face prosecution and is free to remain in the southern African nation following his resignation on Tuesday after 37 years in power.
"There aren’t any plans for former President Robert Mugabe; he’s free to stay in Zim-bob-we and he won’t face prosecution," Simon Khaya Moyo, a front man for the ruling Zim-bob-we African National Union-Patriotic Front, said Thursday by phone. "We don’t have anything against him or his family. He’s the hero of our liberation."
Emmerson Mnangagwa, 75, is due to be sworn in on Friday to replace Mugabe, who’s ruled since independence in 1980. Moyo said he didn’t think any members of the opposition would be included in the new administration.
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"...Unless, of course, he A) doesn't keep his mouth shut, and/or B), doesn't keep his wife's mouth shut. Then we're gonna let him have it."
Mike
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The 'discovery' process might be too damning for some, I'd wager.
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Emmerson Mnangagwa, 75, is due to be sworn in on Friday to replace Mugabe, who’s ruled since independence in 1980 because we need "fresh blood"
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because we need "fresh blood"
Let me reassure you there is no cannibalism in the Zimbabwe People's Congress. Absolutely none. And when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.
[ABC] Family members of the 44 sailors aboard a missing Argentine sub were told that their loved ones were believed to be dead, one of the family members told ABC News on Thursday.
Itati Leguizamon, whose husband, German Suarez, was aboard the submarine, the ARA San Juan, said the families were given the grim news.
Outside the ship's destination in Mar del Plata, Argentina, where family members gathered, a brother of one of the missing sailors was heard screaming, "They killed my brother!"
The news came as Argentine naval officials said that a sound detected during the desperate search for the sub, which vanished last week in the southern Atlantic Ocean, was consistent with an explosion.
The vessel was last heard from Nov. 15, and officials feared that it would run out of oxygen soon.
According to the Argentine navy officials, the sound, described as "consistent with a nonnuclear explosion" that was "abnormal, singular, short, violent" was detected three hours after the last known communication.
The sound, which originated about 270 miles east of the Gulf of San Jorge in the southern part of the country, was picked up by U.S. sensors and international agencies that are capable of detecting nuclear explosions.
According to the officials, the noise's source is in an area with a radius of 77 miles and possible depths of 650 to 10,000 feet.
The officials said that they do not believe the sound resulted from an attack or terrorism and that there was an indication of an electrical fault in the vessel on the morning of the last known communication.
According the officials, the sub should be largely in one piece even if there was an explosion, because a hull breach at such depths would result in the vessel's implosion.
Rescuers had been searching a 186,000 square mile area off the coast, and rough weather had hampered their efforts.
The vessel was en route to Mar del Plata from a base in Ushia, Argentina.
Igor Plotnitsky, former president of the breakaway republic of Lugansk, left his capital on Thursday, according to Russian and Ukrainian news accounts.
Plotnitsky's forced departure from Lugansk and Ukraine comes after a tumultuous three and a half year term as president, which saw him weather charges of murdering some of his formation commanders, and a car bomb attack against him last summer.
According to a news item which appeared in novorosinform.org, Plotnitsky left Lugansk city with a motorcade which included his personal security detail. He was allowed entry at the Izvarino Border Control Point. His security detail were not allowed to enter Russia with him, and were forced to return to Lugansk.
As a matter of disclosure, novorosinform.org is a product of former reserve FSB Colonel Igor Girkin, the Russian operative who aided in starting the rebellion that took over Lugansk and Donetsk. Colonel Girkin said a few years back in a radio interview in St. Petersburg, that he was primarily responsible for the takeover of Crimea.
The most immediate cause for Plotnitsky's departure was when he fired the head of the Lugansk Ministry for State Security, Igor Cornet, on November 20th. Cornet refused to go.
The issue between the two appeared to be Plotnitsky's charge of a coup, which emerged just before the bombing attack on him in early August. Since that time, two more incidents have taken place, relative to the problems Plotnitsky was having.
The first was the murder of two Lugansk People's Republic deputies for the People's Council, a legislative body for Lugansk.
Anatoly Krivonosov and Inna Kuznetsova, a married couple, were found murdered on the night of 26 to 27 August, 2017 in a house in the Kamennobrodsky district of Lugansk. Both were fighters in the early days of the rebellion. Krivonosov was formerly commander of the Dawn battalion. At one point in 2014 during the fighting, Plotnitsky held that post as well.
Almost three weeks later came the news from a leaked transcript of comments from a closed session of the Duma by Russian deputy prime minister Dmitry Kozakin. The transcript indicated that Russia was considering reducing its financial support of the two breakaway republics, Donetsk and Lugansk. According to a regnum.ru article, which first reported the remarks, money being used to support the two republics would be shifted to two other projects.
The first project was infrastructure improvements for Kaliningrad, to include money to build a new ferry, and money for fiber optic cable for the region.
The second was monies for unspecified projects in the recently annexed Crimea.
According to data supplied by the Russian sponsored news website, Russkaya Vesna (Russian Spring), two days after Cornet's refusal to leave the MVD, Cornet issued a report that Plotnitsky's charges of a coup against his government contained elements that were falsified.
The two alleged leaders of the coup, Vitaly Kiselyov and Gennady Tsypkalov were detained at the time in late fall of 2016 on charges of fomenting the attack on Plotnitsky's government. Tsypkalov was allegedly tortured to death of unidentified persons working for Plotnistky, probably from the same Ministry of State Security headed by Cornet.
The report specifically named Lugansk Attorney General Aleksey Oleinik, and were confirmed by the head of investigations in the Lugansk attorney general's office, Leonid Tkachenko, effectively implicating Tkachenko in charges of falsifying criminal charges.
The issues of falsification of charges came from a statement made by Alexander Semenchenko, who was formerly an employee with the Lugansk prosecutor's office. A current official in Plotnistky's government, Minister of Agriculture Ruslan Sorokovenko, had previously uncovered misconduct within Plotnitsky's government, especially the Attorney General’s office, in what has been described a "grave crimes", a Russian euphemism for murder.
Among the many problems Plotitsky had was his ability to say the right things in public, and his drive to trade with the Ukrainians. Many of his problems with his, now dead, formation commanders was their grumbling that Plotnitsky was trading coal and grain to the Ukrainians for cash. Most of the commanders in Lugansk were ethnic Cossacks, and nearly all but a few are now dead. Plotnitsky and his government disclaim their responsibility for those deaths.
Although Plotnitsky stated on more than one occasion his desire to return Lugansk to Russian control, a news story was leaked this month, probably a planted story, that he was open to returning Lugansk to Ukrainian control.
As for the troops on the streets of the capitol of Lugansk, according to Camopedia, their camouflage pattern suggests they are Lugansk MVD, although Russian MVD troops have been known to use the pattern as well. Their AK-74s appear to be well worn, suggesting they were reissued from Russian government stocks some time ago.
Chris Covert writes Eastern European/Russian military news. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
[DW] Searching for bargains on Black Friday and Cyber Monday is quickly spreading across the globe as retailers are using what was once a truly American tradition for their advantage.
Now Germans, who don't even celebrate Thanksgiving and are not known for splashing out extravagantly, fear that this retailing development is on the march. Their fears are overstated, because this phenomenon has already arrived. Last year, around 16 percent of Germans shopped online on Black Friday looking for steep discounts.
The German Trade Association (HDE) says that last year Black Friday and Cyber Monday taken together brought online sales of around €1.7 billion ($2 billion), which works out to be €170 per person on Black Friday and €120 per person on Cyber Monday. This year will surely top that.
[DAWN] Three Moslemholy mans were attacked by a group of men with sharp objects aboard a train in India's Uttar Pradesh state, India Today reported on Thursday.
According to India Today, the three holy mans were attacked by six to seven men who also allegedly tried to throw them off the train.
The holy mans reportedly had an argument with their assailants over covering their heads, who attacked them with iron rods and sticks as they got off the train.
The men ‐ Maulvi Gulzar, Israr and Abrar ‐ have all been admitted to a hospital, India Today reported.
The three men, who boarded a passenger train at Delhi last night, were on their way to a village in Baghpat when they had a tiff with some youth who allegedly beat them up, the daily quoted Superintendent of Police Baghpat Jaiprakash Singh as saying.
A first investigation report has been registered against unknown assailants and the case is being transferred to Railway Police.
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[DAWN] A four-year-old student lost his eyesight on Thursday after he was allegedly tortured by the principal of a private school in Tando Bago, the student's family claims.
Schoolboy Abu Hurera Leghari received multiple bruises to his left eye and was rushed to a local eye clinic, but was later shifted to Hyderabad for further treatment.
Zulfikar Leghari, the father of the victim, said that the left eye of his son has been completely damaged.
Leghari alleged that his son was tortured by the principal of a school in Tando Bago town. He requested the higher authorities to take action against the accused principal.
However, the accused rejected the allegations and claimed that the boy got injured as some of his classmates attacked him with pencils.
Tando Bago SHO Hakim Ali Jalbani told Dawn that he will register a first information report against the accused only after the victim's father approaches him and provides medical certificates.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
By Chris Covert
